Originally Posted By: HangFire
Since Toyota makes over a quarter million Corolla/Matrix's for the US market a year*, the vast majority automatic, I see it a different way.
Normal attrition (car accidents, floods, fires, storm damage, other failures) places sufficient automatics into the used market every year, so they are cheap. Performance enthusiasts like to upgrade to the rare manual, keeping the price high.
*That's a lot. For any model in the US market, 100,000 a year is success and 150,000 is a great success.
The early 2000 Honda Civics have the exact opposite scenario of the Vibe/Corolla.The Civic automatic transmissions are more expensive used/salvage than the manual because they are not reliable.
There have been many discussions at genvibe and toyotanation about early transmission(C59) bearing failures.
Since Toyota makes over a quarter million Corolla/Matrix's for the US market a year*, the vast majority automatic, I see it a different way.
Normal attrition (car accidents, floods, fires, storm damage, other failures) places sufficient automatics into the used market every year, so they are cheap. Performance enthusiasts like to upgrade to the rare manual, keeping the price high.
*That's a lot. For any model in the US market, 100,000 a year is success and 150,000 is a great success.
The early 2000 Honda Civics have the exact opposite scenario of the Vibe/Corolla.The Civic automatic transmissions are more expensive used/salvage than the manual because they are not reliable.
There have been many discussions at genvibe and toyotanation about early transmission(C59) bearing failures.
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